West End Strategy Team
West End Strategy Team
11 – 50 Employees
MarketingMediaSocial Impact
West End Strategy Team is a strategic communications and public affairs firm founded in 2013. Its team develops media, advocacy, and thought-leadership campaigns for nonprofits, faith institutions, and advocacy groups working toward policy change and social justice. The agency helps clients shape public narratives, elevate subject-matter experts, defend free expression, and build support for issues including voting rights, gun violence prevention, refugee protection, and public lands preservation.

Strategic Communications Strategist - Washington, DC (Hybrid)

Support strategic communications for clients focused on social justice, racial and gender equity, and human rights. Develop media strategies, content, outreach, and rapid-response campaigns.

Description

  • Manage project plans and timelines for client deliverables
  • Prepare internal documents, including meeting agendas and notes
  • Monitor media and relevant platforms for client issue-area coverage and developments
  • Stay informed about news relevant to assigned clients
  • Research reporters, issue areas, potential stories, and media angles
  • Evaluate media and other communications opportunities for clients
  • Handle media inquiries and interview requests
  • Monitor industry trends and recommend related strategic approaches
  • Coordinate internal, client, and media meetings as needed
  • Collaborate with team members across assigned accounts
  • Contribute to strategies for traditional and digital media platforms
  • Draft press releases, media advisories, pitch notes, op-eds, letters to the editor, talking points, and social media content
  • Develop and execute media outreach strategies
  • Research target outlets, build press lists, develop media relationships, and communicate with reporters
  • Support rapid-response work through opportunity identification, drafting, coordination, and direct pitching
  • Identify trends and opportunities to build and maintain media relationships
  • Coordinate between clients and media while pitching daily under account-lead supervision
  • Support campaigns through social media and paid media tactics
  • Recommend social media engagement opportunities around media coverage
  • Complete other duties and special projects assigned by a supervisor

Requirements

  • Three to five years of communications experience in an agency, nonprofit, government, media, think tank, research, or similarly fast-paced environment
  • Working knowledge of the modern media landscape
  • Experience in strategic communications or public and media relations
  • Regularly follows current news
  • Strong project management skills, including managing shifting and competing deadlines
  • Excellent writing skills and media fluency
  • Experience coordinating projects
  • Previous rapid-response communications experience
  • Experience producing client-ready materials
  • Experience engaging with media contacts
  • Demonstrated success in public relations, agency, or issue advocacy work
  • Ability to develop and deliver communications strategies
  • Ability to manage multiple projects in a high-volume, fast-paced environment
  • Proficiency with Microsoft and Google Suite tools
  • Familiarity with Cision, Meltwater, or comparable media contact databases
  • Understanding of news and media culture
  • Established media relationships
  • Ability to become knowledgeable about new topics quickly
  • Cover letter and resume required

Benefits

  • Generous bonus structure
  • Health insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Long-term disability insurance
  • Short-term disability insurance
  • Paid parental leave
  • 401(k) plan
  • Hybrid schedule with three days in the office and two days working remotely
  • Compensation for completing an interview exercise when advancing to final interview rounds

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